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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1930.
They say it's going to
It's going to be a sharp winter, nay experts. In Vienna storka und Awallets left early for the south.. In Normandy boars have been frisky, a sure sign, peasants Bay. Same story from Sweden-large cropa of barrics, carly migration of eels, and the and partridge turn- iny white by the middle of Sep- tember.
Sun-spot theory supporters tell the some tale.
Marmata in the Zoo have agreed, are feeding up more than usual.
Hongkong's murmal temperu- ture during the year runs this way -remember when you look at the. figures that 32 degrees, la freezing point.
January 50.8 (degrees Fahren- heit), February 58.9, March 09.1, April 70.3, May 77.1, June 81.0,
The
Navy looks
after
us
·
N American in Barcelona said to me enviously: "Gee! Doesn't your country look after you folks abroad just like a hen with a bunch of chicks!"
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July 82.0, August 81.7, September 80.6, October 76.2, November 69.4. December 62.9.
But don't imagine that the fifties and sixtira are going to be our caldest temperatures. It has been as low as 32 degrees in January. 38.4 in February and 46.4 in March. Our lony temperatures were recorded on January 18, 1893.
Every cold spell has a life hin- tory. First people to think about it are the chemists. Several had displays of cough lozenges, cold cure, and porple as far back as September.
Next to catch on are the people There teho get colds themselves. are one to two million colds during an average winter in Hongkong.
Wine onca stay at home fa suecze can carry three fect). With plenty
Not merely sailors, but every one of them a diplomat and a nurse."
be cold
of hot drinks, aspirin, doses of salts and pargles, colde inst a About a week couple of days. after the beginning of the cold apell, office managers begin la count up the cost.
You can reckon that every cold » costa soine one at least $10,
No need to warry yet. Though: evenings drain in till December, most of the cold spells come with the lengthening days of the now year. Not too much to say that 95 per cent. of 'flu cares occur than. Anyway, a cold spell may ba beneficial to you if it gives you a That's simple cold in the head.
one of the surest forms of inocula tion you can got;
Every cold spell has its epitaph.. It usually runs. "To washing 45 handkerchiefs, D0 cents."
130th DAY of the WAR
Saturday, July 18, a bugle
Onted the fall-in to a garrison
the North
of desperate men on Moroccan const; That was at 2 a.m.
On Monday the big story broite. Three Spanish Premiers iv, 24 hours. Cabinet arm workers as rebels, land troops.
Tuesday,
July 21-Government claim victory.. "Rebellion is crushi ed" but other sources made it clear that war on a grand scale was raging throughout Spain.
In
July 22-British warship saves 150 war zone, Loyal. Spanish crew
kill insurgent officers "What shall we do with their bodies?" was radio- Answer: ed to Madrid. Historic "Lower bodies overboard with re- spectful solemnity."
July 27-Terror In Barcelona. Priests dragged to firing squads, A secret courier brought the message, committing it to memory. It began!
Not
since the days of the French Revolution.
Daily Express air- planc, flying Harold Pemberton to Algeciras, scattered Spanish fleet In panic.
*
REAL GENEROSITY Lord Nuffield's generosity, in following up his previous gift of £1,250,000 towards the Medical Rosearch Foundation at Oxford University by a further donation of three-quarters of a million ster- ling, seems to know no bounds. He has made this additional grant because of his anxiety that the scheme on which he has set his Theart should come to fruition with the minimum of delay. The main point which this great benefactor
That remark was inspired by six able sea- has in mind in giving so freely of
men of the cruiser London, dressed in spotless his money is to make some con-white and completely unarmed, in charge of an tribution towards the relief of officer, marching with dalm confidence and dis human suffering. In order that cipline. towards the British Consul-General's the maximum results may be at office. They were watched with curiosity by the tained towards this end, Lord heavily armed Government militiamen, who Nuffield has himself stated that "t swarmed through the city. Those sailors were is desirable for those who work in going about the task of evacuating British people.
A little later, on the the field of research to undergo a
Catalonian coast further south, period of post-graduate training in a Spanish Government militia- modern methods of investigation, man said: "A British warship to keep in close-touch with develop-came--along this coast. We ments in the sciences ancillary to thought that perhaps she had medicine, and to pursue their en come to shell us. quiries unhampered by the cares of private practice and of routine teaching." This threefold aim, it is explained, will be promoted by
and comfort they had known terrene:
ports, Also, Madrid Terror, Inside the establishment of a post-
for three months in those ships, story. (But Sidney Smith had to go well outside Madrid before he dared graduate school in Oxford, where
Their two commanding of Exmouth, Esk, and Escort,
to write it.) Lord Nuffield has already founded
After bringing in those re- September 5-510 hostages dlo as THE incident occurred ficers look at Malaga and then
the
They British ship.
falls. Communists fa an Institute for Medical Research,
at a place called at
fugees the ships remained in Irun choose the British ship, go and greatly increased the endow Sitges, a small seaside resort
have left for Pasajes, the port
September 0.-Daily Express re- ments and scope of the hospitals. that had just been taken over aboard to pay a courtesy visit, harbour one day. Now they Spanish Government. Caballero Pre- and ask the captain: "Is it safe
of San Sebastian.
porter under hanging threat Arrest- To show how the donor has a keen by a Government committee..
to go ashore?" perception of practicalities, it may
"What are you going there ed as insurgent spy. (Sidney Smith
# took And the captain replies in for?" a Spanish refugee in St. away with the goods.) Same day When the captain' announced
risk for a Malaga story, got be stated that he has realised that his intention of going ashore
was
expelled from special expenditure is likely to be without an armed guard, he en- these words exactly: "I really Jean de Luz asked one of the Sefton Delmer
Burgos for "derogatory remarks."
September 12-Priest called to incurred by the hospitals whose co-countered the respectful re- don't know. I am just going officers.
I'll let you
"Oh!" said the officer, "when 1,200 in caverns of besieged fort, tan- operation is essential, and he has monstrance of his officers. He ashore myself. If you care to
the Government abandoned ners hold fire. Mass said in the rulas. accordingly made special provision insisted and took his walking wait until I return, for such expenditure. One of the owed him and kept him covered
But a ship's boat fol know if it's safe."
The Portuguese actually wait. Pasajes they blew up a cargo The Alcazar had hit Page One.
September 13-San Sebastian falls ship there, and now the wreck most important causes of advance
with a machine gun..
ed. When they did go ashore, is blocking the channel. We without a fight.
September 19-Alcazar survivors of medical studies has been the
"What would have happened," they found it was not quite so have to go and see whether it hold out after explosion wrecks fort. closer connection between these istudies and other branches of { asked one of the British refugees safe for them as for the British is necessary to blow it up again Girl troops mowed down in charge
July 29-Submarines bottle up Morocco army. Franco rages. (This from Pemberton.) Captives hauled (Seflon from prison. to execution Delmer from Burgoa.) All Britons Now I write from ordered to leave Barcelona. Britch pilots offered £130 to fly airplanes St. Jean de Luz, to Spain, Dally Express air reporter and still the British Navy is at warned our airmen off, but a round work. Three destroyers arrived dozen went, and three, at least, were
killed. here a few days ago--bringing- August 6 Bellis consulate-fat wrecked by shell The IN Malaga, which is from Bilbao women who had
told Pemberton: The shell also held by the been held as hostages by the coneiras)
came roaring like an express train;" Government.,
his wife cut by flying glass: "It was to fetch half a dozen British Government, a British warship
Dvery one of those women all very exciting."
August 20-Britala will not in- people. The captain had to arrives to collect refugees. Half
"Ban arma" flash to all
"But no, she had only come
come ashore and talk to the an hour later two Portuguese had found the first courtesy committeo, and do you know
what he carried in his hand warships arrive. a walking-stick only."
stick.
later, "if the committee had re- captain. |science, and it is in recognition of fused to allow us to leave?”
as &
S
mier.
new
great but pleasant surprise to the told me, "That same evening known in Gibraltar that I had The Spaniard was not per
to clear that channel. If so, we of ruins. Mines rack Toledo,
September 30-Gallagher sends IN Estepona, a fishing must get permission from the
village 25 miles authorities and then make sure first full story a siege of Alcazar is this fact that Lord Nuffield has in
raised. Women, children live ~71 "According to Admiralty in-
days on borseflesh diet. Dances held in rain of death. Next day: Gallar- mind the co-operation of the scien- structions," he was told, "our west of Malaga, one of the most the channel is clear."
and overcrowded "What has that to do with her sends world scoop pictures of the tific departments at Oxford with decks were cleared for action, unsavoury
British Navy" inquired Alcazar relief. his school. Not only has he made and we were prepared to take places imaginable, I was an im- the
October 15-William Forrest tele- these big donations, but he has British subjects against what prisoned "apy" for three days. the Spaniard.
phones: Madrid front crumbling. All my arguments and plend- "Well, British merchant ship: Desperate task to ret militia to fight added a big sum to his own appeal ever resistance might have been
ings were merely politely re- ping may need to use that and later on, Madrid
sacks Army in order that the University shall offered by the Spaniards."
In Marseillés I met another ceived with no effect until, as a channel to carry out its de- chief.
October 21--Britain appeals to not be prevented by straitened
who had been last resort, I mentioned the liveries of coal, which is run- finances from promoting essential Englishman
possibility of a British ship ning low in San Sebastian, and Spain to stop mass slaughter. Navy rid has since replied, quite sharply. services. The gift of £750,000, evacuated from Sitges.
"It was almost fantastic," he coming to find out what had we have to protect our merchant would save women hostages. (Mad- It had been shipping," said the officer, "Yes, we have no hostages. They happened to me. announced yesterday, came
are all political prisoners.")
October 27-—USSU sends University, which will now be able that we were taken aboard we left for that district,
shilps to Spain,-Report on eve of were all given cocktails and
That was the first argument on this immensely im-then dinners, with the menu
SPAIN in the last London meetles.
November 2.-Bombardment of portant side of its activities in a fully written out, and it might which
month has seen the Madrid commences. Esteponatans at all. manner which should confer great have been in a liner.
British Navy first speeding November Rebels enter out- benefits on humanity. In these
To that they must have added away its own nationals, then skirts of Spain's ancient capitol. days when so much money is being quarters. Before we landed at the fact that it was possible to offering its hospitalities to for. November 15-Frightful air raids poured into the manufacture of Marsailles, the next morning, see dimly on the horizon that eigners. But still at the same over Madrid give a taste of what the November 20-Bombs reduce instruments of destruction, it is we were all served with a good comforting shape of the Rock, time it has carried out, its next world war will be jike.
not more than an hour and a routine task of churting, patrol- Madrid to B shambles. General indeed a happy circumstance that English breakfast.
half's fast steaming for a war- ling, and keeping a watchful Franco declares blockade of Barce who give so freely of their wealth
eye on the troubled coasts of lona, I was back in Gibraltar with the country. in 24 hours.
to carry
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Ladies' Salon.
"All women occupied officers'
"Then before we went ashore Do you in order that the fullest benefits of wo were asked to pay. science may be brought to those know how much? Four pesetas who suffer,
each, about 1s. 4d."
ship.
really shook the
sunded by this reasoning.
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November 26 (to-day) --See Page and. thirtieth One hundred day of front page news,